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Halloween is the one time of year when it's "socially acceptable" to watch sick, perverse, grisly films. If you're not into the latest Paranormal Activity or Human Centipede movies (p.s. you're totally missing out) check out your local movie theaters. They've got all the aliens, zombies, and torture porn your sick twisted heart desires.

Oct. 26 at 7 pm, Kroc Center
Monster Hours - Family
Three fifth-graders try to defeat a house that is stealing toys from all the children in the neighborhood.

Oct. 29 at midnight, Garland Theater
Rocky Horror Picture Show - Cult classic musical
An unsuspecting couple wanders into an alien transvestite's home, mayhem ensues. There's enough sex, costumes and murder to classify this as a Halloween movie.

Oct. 30 at 8 pm, Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
Night of the Living Dead - Zombie
When unexpected radiation raises the dead, a microcosm of average America has to battle flesh-eating zombies.

Oct. 30, times vary, Bing Crosby Theater
6 pm, The Legend of Sleepy Hallow - Family
Bing Crosby narrates and sings this cartoon classic based on Washington Irving's All Hallow's Eve tale

7 pm, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy - Comedy
Bud and Lou find themselves pursued by an Egyptian cult for a special medallion linked to a walking mummy.

9 pm, Halloween (1978) - Massacre/suspense
A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood escapes and stalks a high school girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.

Oct. 31 at 7 pm, Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
Psycho - Hitchcock suspense /thriller
Marion Crane visits the Bates Motel, where a deranged man named Norman and his dominating mother wreak havoc.

Oct. 31 at 6 pm, Magic Lantern Theater (three movies per showing)
Theater 1:
Night of the Living Dead - Zombie
When unexpected radiation raises the dead, a microcosm of average America has to battle flesh-eating zombies.

The Thing - Alien
Researchers in the remote Antarctic dig up the remains of a spacecraft that has long been frozen in the ice, but the alien life unthaws and infects the living.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - Gore/torture porn
A group of five young friends face a nightmare of torment at the hands of a depraved Texas clan. It has been called grisly, sick, and perverse

Theater 2:
Ghostbusters - Comedy
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based paranormal investigators.

Night of the Living Dead - Zombie
When unexpected radiation raises the dead, a microcosm of average America has to battle flesh-eating zombies.

Army of Darkness - Comic-book horror
A one-armed supermarket employee is transported by the powers of a mysterious book back in time with his Oldsmobile '88 to the 14th century.